Deepak Chopra Video on Total Well-Being
February 16th, 2010
Deepak Chopra explains the many sides of well-being, which means caring for your happiness in five specific areas of your life on Oprah.com
Deepak Chopra Video on the Happiness Solution
February 8th, 2010
Deepak Chopra reveals the formula for happiness and shares how we can reset our attitudes so we can be truly happy.
Video posted at Oprah.com
How to Have a Good Life? Have a Good Day
February 8th, 2010
One piece of bad news that keeps getting repeated has to do with well- being. Americans are bombarded with advice about prevention and positive lifestyle choices. Yet as a population we continue to be more sedentary and obese, with unregulated stress, too little sleep, a high-fat, high-sugar diet, and so on.
Why Is Happiness Still a Mystery?
January 25th, 2010
PBS has just finished a three-part special on human emotions, with the final episode devoted to happiness. It may surprise many that happiness is a hot subject, especially in the new field of positive psychology. Just as medicine studies disease to find out how to get patients well, psychology has almost entirely been about the mind’s maladies. Positive psychology attempts to reverse this focus by studying a person’s strengths rather than his weaknesses.
ABC.com: Good Morning America – Spirituality: The Secret of Happiness in Gloomy Times
January 18th, 2010
For many people this will not be a happy new year, and for many more a sense of gloom hangs over world events. If you feel this gloom yourself, how will you deal with it?
Studies have shown that the most common way of dealing with bad times is through distraction: people tend to watch a lot more TV. To this we can add the time-honored tactic of denial and passive acceptance.
Just Listen? Your Body is Speaking to You
December 23rd, 2009
If I could pick one ally in the pursuit of happiness, I would pick the body, and that means everyone’s body, not just the beautiful, young, fit ones. I know how millions of people feel about their bodies. America is getting to be an obese nation, reaching down into childhood. A bad body image is the chief source of shame and disappointment for many women in particular. Published in Oprah.com
7 New Ways to Find Happiness
December 17th, 2009
If you’re struggling with how to define your life beyond material goods, Deepak Chopra has seven ways for you to make the shift, once and for all, to a purpose-driven life and authentic happiness.
One of the most positive ways to live is to look on every obstacle as a hidden opportunity. This holiday season poses huge challenges for those among us who have lost their jobs or feel financially insecure. Even if you don’t fall into that category, the evening news brings worries on many fronts, from the deficit to terrorism. I’d like to propose that there is a common problem in all these things that you can turn into an opportunity.
Published in Oprah.com
NBC The Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
December 17th, 2009
Jimmy Fallon hosts Deepak, Jessica Parker, Jeff Musical, and Raewkwon
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: Free Holiday gift
December 16th, 2009
A full online happiness course based on “The Ultimate Happiness Prescription” and Sonja’s book “The How of Happiness” is offered by Intent.com as a free holiday gift to everyone for the rest of 2009 and of course want as many people to know as possible! The link for the online course hub page can be found here: free online course